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Extension Department 



The work taken up in these counties through the county agents in- 

 cluded arranging for farm visits, lectures and lecture courses, cooperative 

 experiments, fair exhibits, extension schools, and reading-courses, to be 

 conducted in connection with granges and other clubs. For example, 

 the Herkimer county agent, appointed June 7, 1912, arranged for the 

 following : 



7 — Professor Stone and Mr. Krum 

 12 — Professor Stone, Mr. Krum, and 



Farm visits 

 Lectures 



Lecture courses 

 Cooperative experiments 

 Extension schools 



IMrs. Harrington 

 2 — Pending 

 Several in Farm Crops 

 I — At Poland 



Cornell Reading-Course for the Farm 



The following statement shows the topics covered by the Cornell 

 Reading-Course for the Farm, together with statistics of readers inter- 

 ested in the course : 



I. Soil 



II. vStock-feeding . . . . 



III. Orcharding'. 



IV. Poultry 



V. Dairying 



VI. Farm buildings. . . 



VII. Helps for reading. 



VIII. Miscellaneous. . . . 



IX. Breeding 



X. Horse production. 



Old series 



New series 



Poultry . 

 Soils. . . . 



Rural engineering. 

 Farm forestry . . . . 

 Horse-breeding . . . 



Dairying 



Orcharding 



Farm crops 



Old readers renewed. 

 Cornell study clubs. . 



EXTENSION OFFICE MAIL 



The number of letters received and sent out by the Department during 

 the past year is as follows : 



Letters received 23,968 



Letters sent out 24,964 



